Thursday

Bradford Project Brief

For the Bradford Textile Society Competition I have chosen to enter "Fashion Garment Textile". The brief is as follows:

A fashion fabric, which may include a combination of processes, designed for a specific outfit or garment collection.
- Fashion illustration of proposed garments should be included.

Unit 5 Repeat and External Project

Next term I am developing my knowledge, skills and understanding of weaving. The emphasis of the unit is to enquire, problem solve and to find a personal approach to my chosen subject. The set syllabus will ensure the following:
Generating ideas/creative problem solving/decision making.
Develop and sustain my own approach
Range of research methods/apply them to my practise
Awareness of the weave industry/theoretical aspect of woven cloth/where woven cloth exsists in the fashion industry.

My aims of this unit are to involve myself in different ways to generate ideas, explore new ways of problem solving. I will need to push my independent reflection further as well as explore the idea of career planning. Focusing my research methods to those relevant to weave. I aim to create a indepth application of techniques, processes and materials.

My assesment requires a body of studio work, research files to include reflective thinking and a 2500 word text on my chosen title.

This term I plan to:
- Engage in an industry placement.
- Develop an understanding of the market of woven cloth.
- Establish who I am as a designer.

Friday

What am I doing all of this for? What is my work about?

Design ethos:
Fine line drawings are always an inital start to my research, simple monochrome, to capture the intimate details.
I have always been interested in the construction of textiles and garments. Structure plays a vital role within my work. Colour pallets always involve soft pastle greys and range towards more vivid tones and often based on pastle hues. These colours come from a wide spectrum of research ideas, from ceramics, art, fashion trends to cultural beliefs. Development brings manipulation of fabric into my work, whether its combining diciplines, pleating or deconstructing my cloth. Over all my collections of samples explore different weights of cloth, paring woven cloth with digital printed fabric designs aimed at the forth coming fashion trends.

Previous work:
My most resent work was based on the
Natural Form, involving inspired cotton
and linen slubby cloth manipulated with pleats
based on a
Chanel Tweed. Pastel colours were
teamed with vivid autumn hues of purple
and blue within the digital print which
accompanied the woven cloth.

Architectural Influence:
Parallel steel frames will influence my line drawing.
Glossy, transparent, or smooth yarns will be the base
of the cloth. The parallel line of the weave structure
will reflect ridges, line, and scale, whereas pleats reflect
structure and shape.

Exhibitions and Craft Fairs

  • 2013
  • December 6th- Lavenham Christmas Festival
  • November 9th- Lavenham Christmas Fair, Suffolk
  • November 8th- Cockfeild Christmas Shopping Event
  • NOW ON: November 19th-30th No.70 Pop up Shop, Lavenham
  • October 12th- Autumn Craft Fair, Hadleigh Town Hall, Suffolk
  • 2012
  • November 16th- Christmas Shopping Event, Suffolk
  • June 27th- 30th July- New Designers
  • June 26th- 3rd July 2012- Degree Show, Norwich
  • February 2012- Premier Vision, Paris